SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a United Nations-backed mission earlier this year to tackle gang violence, hopes were high. Coordinated gang attacks on prisons, police stations, and the main international airport ...

There is a level of underestimation of the power of the gangs, not only the way they operate, but their capacity to hold the terrain, their capacity to know the terrain, their capacity to fight or not fight,

Diplomats at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday voiced broad support for converting a security mission helping Haitian police fight escalating gang warfare into a formal U.N. peacekeeping mission,

When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to quell gang violence, hopes were high